FIGURE 1. Location plate and field photographs. A in Approaching the Khersonian Crisis: Fish otoliths from the upper Bessarabian (middle Sarmatian s.l.; Late Miocene) of Jurkine (Kerch Peninsula, Crimea)

FIGURE 1. Location plate and field photographs. A) Jurkine cliff and outcrop with indication of stratigraphy, lithological levels (Roman numerals), and sample levels (Arabic numerals). B) Detail of middle Sarmatian section with lithological levels (Roman numerals) and sample levels (Arabic numerals); Ot1 and Ot2 indicate levels from which the studied otoliths were obtained for Bratishko et al. (2023). C) Insert map of Ukraine with Kerch Peninsula highlighted. D) Simplified geological map of Kerch Peninsula modified after Andrusov (1893). E) Goby monument in Berdyansk, Ukraine.